"Commander Chen Liyan, now that the artillery regiment has been completed, I will take you to take office!" Wang Guorui said to a young officer who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old.

This regiment commander Chen Liyan is one of the green battalion commanders dug by Hu Wei, he originally came with the mentality of trying it out, but as soon as he came over, he was immediately attracted by Wang Guorui's soldiers here. Because Wang Guorui's soldiers here are all strong generals, and they all seem to be well-trained. And Chen Liyan was originally just a boss, and he was still very young, and he was not polished off by those years, and he still hoped to make a career. And the people recommended by Hu Wei also changed Wang Guorui's impression of the green camp.

Hu Wei is still very familiar with the Green Battalion generals managed by his father Hu Chuan, and can remember which one is young, which one is energetic, which one is smart, and which one is self-motivated. And Hu Wei knew this, plus Hu Wei had some ideas in his heart that wanted to maintain this army and then serve as the foundation of the Manchu Dynasty's strong country, so he took the initiative to invite those people to come over and serve together. Therefore, Hu Wei is still loyal at present, at least he hopes that the country will develop, and he sees the hope of the dream of a strong army in this red police force, which is why he is currently doing his best to work for Wang Guorui.

And the people recommended by Hu Wei are all people who have a good relationship with him, and they all have a patriotic heart. Although they may not be able to distinguish between the court and the country for the time being, it doesn't matter, and they can all distinguish it in the future. And Wang Guorui has also changed his impression of the green camp a lot, and the green camp is not completely devoid of patriots. They may have to go with the flow because they are in the status of the Green Battalion, plus they have not seen much of the world, and the corrupt atmosphere of the upper echelons of the Green Battalion. And after they were recommended to come over, they found that the atmosphere here was different from that of the Green Camp, and they all changed their minds.

After all, the army is a melting pot, and if you are in an extremely bad army, even if you are a good soldier, you can be influenced to become a soldier. If you get to a good army, then you will be able to be influenced by the whole to become a good soldier. This is also the legendary military spirit, which can affect many people and every soldier in the army. And Wang Guorui's army has Red Alert soldiers as grassroots officers, which can ensure that the military soul has been injected and will not be changed lightly, but he can change many people, even those new officers.

And this Chen Liyan was Wang Guorui's investigation, and then decided to appoint him as the commander of the artillery regiment. Because he is still very patriotic and willing to fight to defend Taiwan. Therefore, Wang Guorui handed over this most important artillery regiment of fire support to him, because he could still be trusted for the time being. In addition, Wang Guorui's troops have their own Red Alert clone soldiers, so they are not afraid that these officers will be able to take the troops away.

"Chen Liyan, now that we have arrived, look at your soldiers!" Wang Guorui said.

Chen Liyan looked at the fact that there were only about 300 soldiers, and then asked in surprise: "Lord Wang, didn't you tell me that there is an artillery regiment?" I know a lot about the establishment of foreigners, and a regiment should have at least 2,000 people, right? But why are there only more than 300 people, and artillery? ”

Wang Guorui immediately said: "These more than 300 people are the seeds of the artillery regiment, and it will be up to you in the future." Don't underestimate these more than 300 people, there are the most elite among these 300 people, don't believe it. ”

What Wang Guorui said is the truth, don't look at the fact that there are only more than 300 people in this artillery regiment at present, but there are 100 people who are cloned soldiers of the Red Alert system, and they are all people who can use artillery. Because artillery is a technical branch, this kind of technical arm is not only difficult to train, but also has a high training cost. Therefore, Wang Guorui can only increase the proportion of red police soldiers in the artillery regiment as much as possible, so that the artillery regiment can become an army as much as possible. If there were no artillery, then Wang Ruike really had no confidence that he would be able to resist the Japanese army. After all, Wang Guorui is not the kind of revolutionary martyr who can fight against the Japanese devils with his enthusiasm, since Wang Guorui has the golden finger of the Red Police Base, he naturally has to use enough firepower to defeat the Japanese army.

Wang Guorui knew that without artillery, this anti-Japanese war might be risky, but the Japanese army had relatively sufficient artillery. According to the statistics of later generations, the Japanese army has about 300 artillery pieces, and even this number is still increasing. What is paradoxical is that during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty army had more than 500 more advanced cannons, but in the end it still lost. Countless experts and professors in later generations analyzed that the essence of the First Sino-Japanese War was actually that the Manchu court borrowed a knife to kill people and used the Japanese knife to eliminate Li Hongzhang's forces. And Li Hongzhang also knew this, so he ordered his Huai army troops to work without help. Later, these rice buckets actually fought and directly dropped their weapons and fled, so that the Japanese could capture the weapons of the Chinese army to fight. Generally speaking, during the First Sino-Japanese War, China's weapons were actually slightly better than those of the Japanese army.

And the rice buckets of the Huai Army, which Wang Guorui hates the most, have such poor combat effectiveness. In the original history, when Taiwan resisted the Japanese army, Taiwan's military and civilians used earthen artillery broadswords to attack the Japanese army, but the Japanese army killed and wounded twice as much as the Japanese army's losses during the First Sino-Japanese War. If Taiwan's military and civilians had half of the weapons and equipment strength of the Qing army in the First Sino-Japanese War, then perhaps they would be able to completely drive out the Japanese army and not occupy Taiwan. From here, it can be seen how much the Manchu army had rice buckets, and the regular army was not as strong as the ordinary temporary volunteer army. Of course, this may have been caused by the corruption and cowardice of the Manchu Qing leadership, so this caused the regular army to be less effective than the volunteers.

Moreover, the Japanese army captured the weapons of the Manchu army to attack the Manchu army in turn, which made Wang Guorui really speechless, and this situation is just the opposite for decades later. And Wang Guorui, who was before the crossing, saw this situation, and he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart.

The defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War was actually more due to political reasons than military reasons. However, it is useless to say this now, because Wang Guorui is about to face the Japanese army that has captured hundreds of artillery pieces of the Manchu army, plus they also have hundreds of cannons, so theoretically the Japanese army can form nineteen artillery wings. Although in reality it is less, after all, it is impossible for all of these artillery pieces to be concentrated at the wing level. But this is enough to show the strength of the Japanese artillery.

Napoleon said that artillery is the god of war, and if there is no artillery, the army will suffer very much. In the later War of Resistance Against Japan, the Chinese army suffered a big loss due to lack of firepower in many cases. This lesson Wang Guorui will not continue to commit, so he must do his best to form his own artillery, although Wang Guorui's artillery cannot reach the same level as the Japanese army in a short time, but at least there must be. It is impossible for all the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Japanese army to be transferred, but the Japanese troops they sent to receive Taiwan in the first batch also have at least one artillery wing, which should not be underestimated.

Wang Guorui had to train an artillery regiment as much as possible so that he could resist the first attack of the Japanese army, and then buy time for the second batch of soldiers to train. Wang Guorui never thought that he could completely defeat the Japanese army with more than 10,000 people, and without more than 100,000 troops, Wang Guorui would not have been able to make Japan completely dispel the idea of occupying Taiwan. Only when the Japanese army is completely wounded, they think that the occupation of Taiwan is worth the loss, and they pay much more than they get, so that they will stop fighting against Taiwan. After all, war is also about costs and benefits, which is no different from doing business, if the estimated benefits are much higher than the cost of input, then naturally no one will fight this war.

"Chen Liyan, I tell you, you must train a batch of qualified artillerymen within three months, at least the size of an artillery regiment." Wang Guorui said.

And Chen Liyan immediately said: "My lord, you still removed me from my position, I can't do it!" Where is it so easy to train artillerymen, three months, this is simply impossible! ”

Although Chen Liyan was born in the Green Battalion, he also knew that artillery training was not easy. After all, an artilleryman needs to learn not only to shoot shells, but also to learn to aim. Aiming is a parabolic indirect aim, not a straight line aim, so it takes a long time. Even the artillery has to learn mathematics, and if the mathematics is not good, then I am afraid that if you want to learn to use the cannon, it will cost a lot of shells.

Wang Guorui then said, "What if I give you an unlimited number of cannonballs to fight? ”

"What? Unlimited! Chen Liyan exclaimed.

Chen Liyan really found that he had met a local tyrant, and he was able to provide an unlimited number of cannonballs to fight himself, this is not what a local tyrant is. The reason why artillery can be trained for a long time is because soldiers have to learn mathematical calculations, otherwise they will not be able to hit at all. But Wang Guorui is so arrogant and does not restrict the use of cannonballs in training, which is simply incredible. If there can be an unlimited number of cannon shells to use, it is completely possible to pile up a qualified artillery with countless shells. However, the premise is that there is really such a strong economic strength, otherwise this method will not work.

"Yes, unlimited, I can give you an unlimited supply of shells, you can use countless shells, then you can train qualified artillerymen?" Wang Guorui asked.

"Yes!" Chen Liyan said affirmatively.